AND OUR PRESBYTERY LEADERS WOULD HAVE US BELIEVE: ‘WE HAVE NOT CHANGED!’
Does this look like Rev Thompson is keeping the terms of the oath he took at his ordination?
“As God helps you will you expose and resist the continued apostasy from Christ manifested within Irish Presbyterianism, Methodism, Episcopalianism and other visible church bodies; exhorting God’s people to obey the teaching and commandment of 1 Timothy 6: 3-5?”
1 Timothy 6:3-5 states: “If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness; he is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.”
The minister of Draperstown Presbyterian Church does not “consent to the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness” for he refuses God’s command to separate from the apostasy of Irish Presbyterianism.
This is but yet another indication that there are those within the Free Presbyterian Church who are determined that the stand taken in Crossgar 75 years ago, in obedience to God’s Word, is overturned.
Sadly, all too many are either too scared, not interested, or just fast asleep, to raise a protest!
The Lord’s attitude toward those who would go back to apostasy is plain.
“And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt. . . And the LORD said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have shewed among them? I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they,” Numbers 14:4, 11-12.
The will of God for His faithful is still that which motivated our separatist forefathers 75 years ago! “Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty,” 2 Corinthians 6:14-18.
Those who are abandoning these commands of God and encourage others to join in their rebellion, are ill spoken of in God’s Word!
“For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them. But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire,” 2 Peter 2:20-22.
To go to a church which is of the denomination that 100 years ago exonerated Prof J E Davey from the well documented accusations of denying the Bible’s teaching on the person of Christ and the salvation He obtained by His sufferings on the cross of Calvary; the denomination which then, some 26 years later, made him moderator, to mark the history of the Word of God in Ireland, is a wicked travesty!
The official position of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland is cloaked by a thin veneer of professed allegiance to God’s Word, but which is easily seen to be a sham and hypocritical when it is noted that it is in fellowship with Roman Catholicism, transgresses the Word of God by ‘ordaining’ woman elders and ministers and has a most ambivalent position on sodomy, lesbianism and transgenderism.
The downward path of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland began by its endorsing of J E Davey’s apostasy and it has continued and deepened to the present day. Our forefathers left that denomination because there is no recovery from apostasy, only judgment.
“For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, and have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame,” Hebrews 6:4-6.
The folly of Messrs Thompson and Bonar will not alter that decree.
Rev Ivan Foster (Rtd)
11th May 2026